Fatal: Import FTrash Docs!

[makapaaa]

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Tuesday's report, 'Doctors from abroad form growing pool in Singapore'.
If doctor shortage is so acute, we should motivate Singaporean medical students training overseas to return. As those trained in the National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School are heavily subsidised and our second medical school will take at least a couple of years to complete, one way is to work out the amount of subsidy given to medical students in NUS and give the same amount to students training overseas. Those who accept the subsidy will have to be bonded for five years just like local graduates.
Over-reliance on foreigners to ease the shortage is not the best solution as the work of a doctor sometimes involves life and death, and depending on an interpreter to translate non-English-speaking patients' medical condition to foreign doctors can sometimes lead to inaccuracy and disastrous consequences.
Tan Lee Hwang (Ms)

 

[makapaaa]

<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=heading>Latest comments</TD></TR><TR><TD id=messageDisplayRegion width="100%"><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=Post cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Are foreign doctors much easier to be controlled - to maintain cronyism in Singapore's medical faternity ? - as many children of our elites are in the medical faternity.
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: AbolishNSabolishNS at Sat Aug 22 13:20:25 SGT 2009
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=AlternatePost cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Is our local university quota of medical students used to ensure that only the children of the elites can qualify as doctors ?
Can someone who know the sources, research into the family backgrounds of our list of qualified medical officers in Singapore ?
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: AbolishNSabolishNS at Sat Aug 22 13:18:05 SGT 2009
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=Post cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Dont ever take a doctor's word as final. Always seek 2nd opinion. A friend did just that when the 1st doctor suggested she removed her womb. Today, she's a happy mother of 2 kids!
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: JoJo2008 at Sat Aug 22 13:15:08 SGT 2009
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=AlternatePost cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Remember the absurd reason they gave for restricting the number of medical students intake then? . . . that medical fees will go up if there are more doctors as the medical practitioners need to maintain their level of income in face of lesser patients per doc. . .
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: myotosan at Sat Aug 22 12:55:38 SGT 2009
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left><TABLE style="WIDTH: 100%" class=Post cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Stifle our own children and deprive them of a passion to achieve their medical ambition by controlling their opportunities to enter our own local Uni and import Foreign Doctors who can't even communicate properly with our citizens, not to mention the credibility of their medical skills. WHAT TYPE OF SCREWED UP PLANNING IS THIS?
</TD></TR><TR><TD style="VERTICAL-ALIGN: top" align=left>Posted by: Smallvoice at Sat Aug 22 12:31:55 SGT 2009
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[middaydog]

_ , and depending on an interpreter to translate non-English-speaking patients' medical condition to foreign doctors can sometimes lead to inaccuracy and disastrous consequences. _ Tan Lee Hwang (Ms)

my vet doesn't speak dog language, and without an interpreter my dog came out alive every time

 

[woofy]

I truly agree to this. There are many bright singaporean students who didn't make it to medical schools here but graduated as medical doctors overseas; if there is 'really' a shortage of doctors here, shouldn't the Government consider increasing the quota for entry into medical school here? They on one hand restrict the number of good students from entering the medical school, then on the other hand import foreign doctors saying there is a shortage. The truth is that there is a shortage of 'cheap' doctors; same goes for engineers, lawyers etc. All professionals will one day become 'cheapo' except the PAPs.

 

[limpeh2]

No wonder got earthquake quite recently near the south continent. Tens of thousands of mainland keling docs all scampering to their nearest travel agency to book a flight to Singapore.

 

[Lee Hsien Tau]

Maybe you should consider going to your vet when you need an operation?


:oIo::oIo:

my vet doesn't speak dog language, and without an interpreter my dog came out alive every time

 

[takcheksian]

This is a Great Policy!

Very soon we will be able to import FTs as politicians and ministers as well! HAHAHA!!!!

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Tuesday's report, 'Doctors from abroad form growing pool in Singapore'.
If doctor shortage is so acute, we should motivate Singaporean medical students training overseas to return. As those trained in the National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School are heavily subsidised and our second medical school will take at least a couple of years to complete, one way is to work out the amount of subsidy given to medical students in NUS and give the same amount to students training overseas. Those who accept the subsidy will have to be bonded for five years just like local graduates.
Over-reliance on foreigners to ease the shortage is not the best solution as the work of a doctor sometimes involves life and death, and depending on an interpreter to translate non-English-speaking patients' medical condition to foreign doctors can sometimes lead to inaccuracy and disastrous consequences.
Tan Lee Hwang (Ms)